Friedrich Mager
Friedrich Mager (born July 13, 1885 in Lauban , Oberlausitz , † March 17, 1974 in Greifswald ) was a German geographer and historian.
Life
Mager studied at the Royal University of Greifswald , the Friedrichs University Halle and the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University . In Breslau he became a member of the Association of German Students . In 1910 he was in Greifswald to Dr. phil. PhD. Entrusted with cultural-historical studies in Schleswig-Holstein since 1912 , he was commissioned by Max Friederichsen to carry out cultural-geographic studies in Courland . He traveled to Courland in 1917/18, covering 6,000 km. In 1920 Mager received a teaching position for economic geography at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1922 she appointed him associate professor .
From 1946 to 1953 he held the chair for historical geography and cultural landscape research at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald .
Mager dealt intensively with the economic importance of the forest . He was able to determine that the 98 km long forest belt of the Curonian Spit was almost completely preserved in the 15th century. The cultural landscape research of East Prussia owes him a large number of valuable contributions.
Works
- History of farming and soil culture in the state of Mecklenburg . Berlin 1955
- The forest in Old Prussia as an economic area . Cologne, Graz 1960
- with HMF Syskowski: Wildlife and Hunting of Old Prussia. Through the centuries of history .
Honors
- Honorary doctorate from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (1960)
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1963)
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Mager in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Friedrich Mager in the state bibliography MV
- The demolition of the island of Sylt (PDF; 210 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 140.
- ↑ Dissertation: Duke Ernst II. And the Schleswig-Holstein question 1863–1866. A historical study .
- ↑ Kiel list of scholars - Friedrich Mager. https://cau.gelehrtenverzeichnis.de/person/67abe01d-f920-274b-cc0b-4d4c60c21339?lang=de
- ^ R. Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mager, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lauban |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1974 |
| Place of death | Greifswald |